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Sayaka Murata

Japanese novelist of Convenience Store Woman, who worked in one while writing it.

Sayaka Murata is a Japanese writer. She is best known for the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman (2016) which has been translated into more than thirty languages worldwide. Murata has won many major literary prizes in Japan, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 2003, the Noma Literary New Face Prize in 2009, the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2013, and the Akutagawa Prize for Convenience Store Woman in 2016. All the English translations of her work are done by Ginny Tapley Takemori. In addition to Convenience Store Woman, Murata's first book to be published in English, Takemori has translated the novels Earthlings and Vanishing World, the short-story collection Life Ceremony, the short stories "Faith", "Survival", and "A Clean Marriage", as well as the New York Times published opinion piece "The Future of Sex Lives in All of Us", among others.

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Born
1979-08-14, Inzai, JapanA Tuesday
At birth
Sun in Leo, Moon in Taurus
Nationality
Japan
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1979-08-14, Inzai, Japan · time unknown, noon chart

Asia/Tokyothe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunLeo20°44′Direct
MoonTaurus12°24′Direct
MercuryLeo3°42′Direct
VenusLeo17°36′Direct
MarsCancer3°40′Direct
JupiterLeo20°11′Direct
SaturnVirgo13°52′Direct
UranusScorpio17°04′Direct
NeptuneSagittarius17°47′Retrograde
PlutoLibra17°03′Direct

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